Example sentences of "was one [prep] [art] many " in BNC.
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1 | The old woman 's son was one of the many prisoners who have subsequently died in the prison . |
2 | FRANCIS GOODMAN was one of the many bright talents that flourished in the art of taking fashion and portrait photographs in London in the 1930s . |
3 | There was a momentary hesitation while he considered the implications , but it was one of the many challenges he could n't let go . |
4 | The Rev. Charles A. Berry was one of the many Nonconformist ministers to visit America : in 1887 , on his second visit , he had preached at Beecher 's Plymouth Church , a visit organized before the American 's death . |
5 | Which was one of the many reasons , now he thought about it , why he was planning to kill her . |
6 | But his was one of the many families in the streets that ran off the main road at the bottom of the hill and from whom this shop and the tobacconist 's derived most of their regular custom . |
7 | Mr Grant 's grandfather was one of the many skippers who used the railway to sell fresh fish to the industrial markets in the hinterland and to London . |
8 | ‘ Freedom of labour ’ in capitalist society was one of the many myths of that society , since in reality the monopolisation of the means of production by the capitalists forced the workers to sell their labour-power . |
9 | Opinion such as this was well established long before Hitler rose to power and there can be little doubt that Germanisation was one of the many items of baggage the Prussians left behind for the Nazis to snatch . |
10 | The talk was one of the many social activities which include visits to Exbury Gardens , Bournemouth and Haslemere Theatre . |
11 | It was one of the many characteristics they shared . |
12 | He told Sharpe his patrol was one of the many that daily scouted south to the French border and beyond ; this particular troop had been ordered to explore the villages south and east of Mons down as far as the Sambre , but not to encroach on Prussian territory . |
13 | This was one of the many reasons why he was such an immensely likeable man . |
14 | Cotton Lane in dockland Bermondsey was one of the many small cobbled streets which served the wharves , and it differed very little from other riverside throughways . |
15 | Leonidov was one of the many Soviet architects of the Avant-garde whose designs remained projects on paper , only a staircase , in the Kislodovsk sanatorium , ever being executed . |
16 | Panofsky , who was Professor of art history at Hamburg University from 1926 to 1931 , was one of the many German intellectuals that were lost to Germany when he took up residence at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 1935 , having been forced to leave in 1933 . |
17 | Discredited , politicized and apparently unmanageable , ORTF was one of the many Gaullist and Establishment sacred cows to suffer from the ‘ contestation ’ of May-June 1968 and its aftermath . |
18 | Her cotton dress was rent almost from the armpit to the hem and as she leaned forward to bring a saucer of water to the lips of a wounded man , the Collector glimpsed three polished ribs and the shrunken globe of her breast ; modesty was one of the many considerations which no longer troubled her . |
19 | It may be that he was one of the many unlearned priests forced to absent themselves for the sake of their own education , but his going to Chester seems to suggest rather that he was both able and ambitious in the new province . |
20 | It is extremely probable that it was one of the many plants brought over to Britain by the Roman occupationary army to remind the legionaries , while they shivered in the damp foggy cold , of the warmth and dryness they had left behind at home . |
21 | ‘ Indeed , it was one of the many subjects … time , Amaryllis … but you have driven so much out of my thoughts . |
22 | Mill Road Hospital was one of the many places hit and Maureen was injured there , fortunately only slightly , and taken to another hospital . |
23 | Mike , an ex-philosophy student , was going off to Germany in the New Year ; Naomi from Bristol was about to embark on a Museum Studies course at university ; Liane , a weights and measures official , was one of the many volunteers who had helped at Uppark after the fire ; and Hugh , a quantity surveyor currently between jobs , set out to astound us over the next few days with his minimalist clothing ( some ancient jeans which were fashionably ripped at the crotch and a pair of lurid , exceedingly short shorts ) . |
24 | It was one of the many coves in Fethiye Bay where you can anchor up while the meltem , the locally variable north-westerly that is both the driving force and the cooling fan of the Lycian coast between May and September , does its stuff . |
25 | That was one of the many occasions when we were sent for after supper and beaten by the Library . |
26 | It was one of the many things for which she had Rune to thank . |
27 | Anyway , the mosque was one of the many subjects he felt it safest to avoid until he had plucked up the courage to go into one . |
28 | I believe he was one of the many aircraft that General Galland 's flying wing and the German Navy shot down on route through the narrows of the Channel . |
29 | Mr Williamson , can I ask for your confirmation that the reason that the Secretary of State deleted Policy E two in the nineteen eighty structure plan was one of the many reasons under the heading , General , there is no specific reference in the notice of approval to the deletion of this policy and therefore I am assuming it fell for one of the reasons given in paragraphs five point two to five point four five . |
30 | Hitting the headlines again , Connors was one of the many businesses affected in the Bangor and Portadown bombs this year . |